Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...
Divorced. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia publishing scion, lawyer, penologist, music patron, eldest son of the late Edward William Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; by Margaret Adams Bok, Philadelphia socialite; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...
...notorious Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket so good and so strong that its mere nominations caused the Curry machine to crumble and broke Tammany's back. What happened then? They changed the name of the Tammany candidate...
Died. Charles Edwin Thompson, 63, Cleveland motor parts manufacturer and aviation patron, president of Thompson Products Inc., a founder and first president of Glenn L. Martin Co. (bombing planes); after a paralytic stroke; in Washington. Since 1930 the Thompson Trophy race for landplanes which he sponsored has been No. 1 event of the National Air Races...